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The NHS has no idea how much money it loses to fraud, officials admitted yesterday, after claims that financial abuse costs billions of pounds a year.

The NHS carries out no comprehensive audit of fraud, and yesterday the Government faced calls to get a grip on the problem.

Jim Gee, a former head of NHS counter-fraud efforts, told the BBC’s Panorama that if the health service had a similar rate of loss to other countries, fraud and error would cost the taxpayer £7 billion a year.

Mr Gee, who works for BDO, an accountancy firm that offers anti-fraud services, said